Sean Carroll

It's easy, and wrong, to think of scientific truths as fixed and absolute; it's also easy, and just as wrong, to act as if we know nothing and everything is up for grabs, says physicist Sean Carroll.

Caltech physicist Sean Carroll explains the greatest scientific achievement of our time—finding the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists. In The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World, he not only explains the importance of the Higgs boson but also the Large Hadron Collider project itself.